Goodman Theatre’s vibrant production of Leonard Bernstein’s Wonderful Town recounts a tale as old as time: two sisters migrate from the countryside to the big city in the hopes of becoming […]
Fishhead. Republic of Want is an experimental novel by Ignatius Valentine Aloysius in the style of Cervantes and Borges, where Fate is the overarching narrator, addressing love and human behavior within […]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dBvZLehlNs] “I’m too old to die young,” frontwoman Sabrina Ellis of A Giant Dog belts out on “Sex & Drugs.” These lyrics, along with lines like “you’ve been told […]
The air buzzes over the grand floors of Navy Pier’s Festival Hall where mini galleries are set like city blocks as guests navigate the aisles. There are colors everywhere: nestled […]
An underappreciated facet of Chicago’s rich cultural offerings goes on display next week when the first-ever, multi-day festival devoted to contemporary classical art music begins. For six days–October 5-10–the Ear […]
I’d never been to the Green Mill before, which is odd considering I live in the neighborhood and it’s one of Chicago’s most, if not the most, notable jazz venues in the […]
“I killed a man and the world forgives me. I loved a man and the world wants to kill me.” Emile Griffith’s summation of his life also sums up Michael […]
Open Books‘ two stores in the West Loop and Pilsen are brightly decorated, and the shelves are filled with prose, poetry, and everything in between. You can find anything from […]
The Dressmaker Those few times a year when a film escapes from Australia and makes its way stateside, you can usually count on it being a familiar story told through […]
Outside of the setting and the age of the competitors, Disney’s latest live-action work, Queen of Katwe, is structured using many of the same beats as the most of their […]
Allow me to draw your attention to the directing credits on the new animated film Storks. The first name belongs to live-action feature veteran Nicholas Stoller (who also wrote the […]
Let’s just get this out of the way off the bat: there is no better version of this story than the original, original version—Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 masterpiece Seven Samurai. Six […]
